{"id":4543,"date":"2014-02-03T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:07:33","slug":"the-difference-between-officers-and-ncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2014\/02\/the-difference-between-officers-and-ncos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between Officers and NCO&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Platoon Sergeant and his Platoon Leader are racking out in the field for<br \/>\nthe night.  The Platoon Sergeant looks up and says, &#8220;When you see all the<br \/>\nstars in the sky, what do you think, LT?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The LT replies, &#8220;Well, I think of how insignificant we really are in the<br \/>\nuniverse; how small a piece of such a grand design.  I can&#8217;t help but wonder<br \/>\nif what we do truly means anything or makes any difference.  Why?  What do<br \/>\nyou think of, Sergeant?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think somebody stole the freakin&#8217; tent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Platoon Sergeant and his Platoon Leader are racking out in the field for the night. The Platoon Sergeant looks up and says, &#8220;When you see all the stars in the sky, what do you think, LT?&#8221; The LT replies,&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2014\/02\/the-difference-between-officers-and-ncos\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1226],"tags":[355,877,100],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-historical-asides","tag-humor","tag-military-humor","tag-rambles","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21168,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/21168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}